Search Engine Strategies London 2010 kicked off this morning - literally. The opening keynote speaker, Avinash Kaushik, author, blogger and Analytics Evangelist at Google, challenged the 1,500 attendees to "forget everything you know about analytics - it's a new decade and there are new rules." Click to read the rest of this post.

It's free to join and affiliates get paid for leads and sales. Click to read the rest of this post.

App harnesses crowd-sourcing, a departure from their text-based service. Click to read the rest of this post.

As it turns out, people don't like their info being shared automatically. Click to read the rest of this post.

Phones are due out by the 2010 holiday season. Click to read the rest of this post.

It is the year 2010... So get yourself down to Search Engine Strategies for the, all new, Black Hat Vs White Hat Unconferenced & London SEO party. Click to read the rest of this post.

Improved imagery for Haiti and Vancouver included. Click to read the rest of this post.

The loss comes at the advantage to several smaller players. Click to read the rest of this post.

Youtube have adapted their logo for valentine's day. With minimal design it's suddenly made their tagline really cute! See what i mean? Leave a comment if it inspires any daring acts of romance.

So many Google updates. So little time. Click to read the rest of this post.

You can't make this stuff up. Click to read the rest of this post.

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comScore has just announced its monthly qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In January 2010, Americans conducted 15.2 billion core searches. Click to read the rest of this post.

Semantic results are organized by category. Click to read the rest of this post.

The move continues Google's pursuit of social search. Click to read the rest of this post.

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Marketers have started a petition on Facebook requesting Google AdWords to accept AS3 flash banners. Click to read the rest of this post.

Move is in line with lobbying for National Broadband Plan. Click to read the rest of this post.

According to Experian Hitwise data released today, searches on Bing increased 5 percent and search on Ask increased 4 percent in January 2010, while searches on Google decreased 1 percent and searches on Yahoo! decreased 2 percent. Click to read the rest of this post.